Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that hahahahacker2009 would write on Sun
Jul 5 08:33:17 2026:
>
> [He is] an average proton mail user, so it is normal that [he gets]
> too excited with security.
>
> I stopped using Unix (means reading their man pages and programming
> with their libraries) and move[d] to Plan 9 to stop thinking about
> all the security issue every day. But then I read too much of its
> document and didn't get my hand dirty with code. That's equally bad.
>
Is Plan9 a real alternative to OpenBSD? My understanding is that no
serious development has been done on Plan9 in, literally, decades.
I installed 9front on one of my computers, on which it appears that
serious development is still -- rarely, but occasionally -- still
being done. But even 9front is still, in my opinion, quite clearly a
toy operating system, not suitable for real work. OpenBSD is, in
contrast, an operating system on which one can do real work. (I do
not use OpenBSD for real work, but I would if it supported ZFS).
Jay F. Shachter
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